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Bank bosses are putting jobs at risk if they repeat Farage saga, City minister warns

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Coutts has been caught at the centre of a dramatic few days around how it treated the former UKIP leader
Coutts has been caught at the centre of a dramatic few days around how it treated the former UKIP leader Photo: Dan Kitwood/Getty Images

Senior executives at some of the UK's biggest banks risk losing their jobs if they de-bank customers because of their political views, the City minister has warned.

Speaking to Financial News after a meeting with the UK's biggest lenders on 26 July, Andrew Griffith said that decisions over which clients to cut ties with are "a question of leadership".

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